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This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, including video games (Rule of Rose), manga (Uzumaki), and anime (the classic Devilman). Film is represented with well-known works such as Ringu and overlooked filmmakers like Mari Asato.
List of contents
Introduction: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish Bhattacharjee
Part 1: National Traumas and Repressions
Chapter 1: The Ghost of Imperialism: Japan's Forgotten Horrors in the Shadow of Sadako. Calum Waddell
Chapter 2: A Modern Monster: Shin-Godzilla and its Place in the Discourse Concerning 3.11 and National Resilience. Barbara Greene
Chapter 3: Cultural Trauma, Cross-Flow of Aesthetics, and the Child: A Comparison between Ringu and The Ring. Bipasha Mandal
Chapter 4: Space, Smoke and Mirrors: The Frightening Ambiguity of Ju-On: Origins (2020). Daniel Krátký
Chapter 5: "The Dead Speak: Horror and the Modern Ghost in Eiji Otsuka's The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Megan Negrych
Part 2: Posthuman Monsters and Grotesque Bodies
Chapter 6: "Love in a Chair": Industrialization and Exploitation Edogawa Rampo's "The Human Chair" and Junji Ito's Manga Adaptation. Leonie Rowland
Chapter 7: The Monstrous Feminine in Mari Asato's J-Horror Films. Canela Ailén Rodriguez Fontao and Mariana Zárate
About the author
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he teaches courses on international horror film. He also serves on the editorial board of New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (Intellect), Director of the horror cinema research group "Grite," and Director of the Spanish horror studies series "Terror: Estudios Críticos" (Universidad de Cádiz).Subashish Bhattacharjee is assistant professor of English at the University of North Bengal.Ananya Saha is PhD scholar in the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he teaches courses on international horror film. He also serves on the editorial board of New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (Intellect), Director of the horror cinema research group "Grite," and Director of the Spanish horror studies series "Terror: Estudios Críticos" (Universidad de Cádiz).Subashish Bhattacharjee is assistant professor of English at the University of North Bengal.Lindsay Nelson is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Economics at Meiji University.
Summary
This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, including video games (Rule of Rose), manga (Uzumaki), and anime (the classic Devilman). Film is represented with well-known works such as Ringu and overlooked filmmakers like Mari Asato.
